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4·11 hours ago- Moderna and Pfizer are mRNA.
- Novavax is protein subunit.
- AstraZeneca is viral vector (not an attenuated SARS-CoV-2, a completely different virus).
0·2 days agoGiven rideshare driver (is this relevant?) this smacks of driving while black type discrimination.
I think you’re on to something here. Any behaviour becomes 10x more threatening to the public/cops when the person doing it has brown skin.
Obviously the toy looks a bit real, but it seems to me all this needed was “hey we had a complaint, that looked real, why not hand it over and go home for a bit?”
Thing is, he’d already left the scene when he was arrested. They had to track this guy down to arrest him and confiscate his property, and it’s not even clear that he was breaking any law. Seems like they would have had time to check that?
I also don’t know why they keep saying it was “discharged” like that’s a relevant detail. It’s not like it made it more threatening, because if you see someone pull a trigger and it doesn’t make a loud pop, then you know it’s not a real gun (or at very least it’s not a loaded gun). Unless this is a weird kind of water pistol that does make some kind of a pop? Also, if people are close enough to see the trigger being pulled then they’re probably also close enough to see the spray of water. It’d be far more effective to just brandish it if you wanted to scare people.
In short:
NSW Police have arrested a man possessing a water pistol following reports that a replica gun was discharged near NSW’s parliament.
About 1pm, officers were called to Sydney’s CBD following reports that a white replica gun was discharged.
What’s next?
It’s not clear whether the man will be charged given the legality of possessing a water pistol.
0·5 days agoWhy is it “virtually impossible to deliver on”? Higher education has been free in the past, right?
But don’t call it the “best Australian songs of the 90s” if you’re going to leave out so many of the best songs of the 90s.
Yeah, the title is intentional click-bait/engagement-bait
Madison Avenue - Don’t Call Me Baby
I had no idea this was Australian! Now you’ve mentioned it, though, there’s a noticeable lack of hard ‘r’ in some lines (for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-mRcnF5tSc).
Some classics in this list. Such a list can’t exist without people pointing out who was missed, though. This reads like a top 50 of what JJJ had on high rotation. It’s missing several acts that were bigger than most of the names on this list.
Agreed - and thanks for making your list of things it omitted - but the list was compiled by a poll of Double J staff, so it was always going to be biased towards deep-cuts, and it’s a good thing to bring lesser-known and forgotten music to attention (so long as people don’t take the list to be authoritative).
0·6 days agoJoke’s on them, though, because we’ll all be dead in 30!
“People who believe system is failing have less faith in system”
I know it’s the headline writer, who I think isn’t usually the author of the article (I don’t know how The Conversation does it, though), and much less still is it reflective of worth of the study, but these kinds of headlines still annoy me. Maybe they’re written to annoy people, I don’t know.
The headline isn’t even accurate. The question asked in the survey isn’t about whether respondents think inequality is high, but whether they think income distribution is fair (the exact wording is: “How fair do you think income distribution is in Australia?”).
Department of Home Affairs Strengthening Democracy Taskforce
This is a slightly terrifying phrase. I still associate Home Affairs so strongly with Dutton - as the mega-portfolio that was created to placate him - that it’s hard not to read ‘Strengthening Democracy Taskforce’ in the same way as American war-mongering rhetoric of ‘SPREADING FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY’.
This impression is not helped by this bit of double-speak later in the article 😂:
The Department of Home Affairs’ 2024 Strengthening Democracy report describes Australia’s democratic resilience as “strong, but vulnerable”.
This suggests Australia’s satisfaction with democracy is at risk. It may erode further if voters think the major parties aren’t sufficiently responsive to the economic pressures they are under.
Not to defend the state of our ‘democracy’, but I feel compelled to point out that thanks to preferential voting we can vote for parties other than the major parties. Unfortunately many of the minor parties are also in favour of policies that would increase inequality, but the Greens consistently campaign on reducing inequality. I suppose a lot of people who might be roughly characterised as ‘right-wing populists’ and against status-quo neoliberalism would find the Greens unpalatable, though. Do we need a party that’s like the Greens but with One Nation’s aesthetics or something?
0·10 days agoBanning everyone under 16 from using YouTube really is the peak of stupidity amongst this bullshit.
Well, it’s at least preferable for them to be spending their time propagandising to Americans than to Australians, right?
Haha, holy shit, what a damning excerpt! Thanks for saving me some time.
That’d rely on tenants reporting their evictions to the tentants’ union, and most people aren’t engaged with the tenants’ union, and even among those who are, relying on tenants reporting would probably be a bit spotty.
If the government is serious about enforcement, I think the logical thing would be for the bond authority to track it. They could be required to log the reason when the bond is claimed, and then their system would flag it if another bond was lodged for the address within the specified period.
If the government doesn’t implement a real system for enforcement, though, then yeah, some system through the tenants’ union would be better than nothing.
In Victoria, renters can challenge a rent increase “if they believe the increase is higher than the market range”
I assume, like with many renter protections, it’s a pain in the arse to actually do in practice, but it’s there, so they can’t just double your rent in one go to force you out.
Also, rent can only be increased once every 12 months in Vic, so landleeches may need to wait months before they can increase the rent by any amount at all.
Not that I doubt there will be some dodgy workarounds. I suspect landlords might try to abuse the “if the owner is moving back in” exemption, because even if there’s strong provisions - e.g. the property can’t be advertised again for at least 12 months - it still requires someone to be paying enough attention to notice and report any violations.
0·19 days agoThanks for cross-posting - I don’t think enough Australians know about this. I think I’m fairly well-informed relative to the whole Australian voting population, and I only became aware a couple of months back.
0·20 days agoI get that there’s reasons some people want detached, single-title housing, but they could still have that if they built double-storey housing, achieve better density than this, and not make the suburb a hellscape.
She explained Sturgeon had “somewhat unconventional and unorthodox views”, but had not been diagnosed with or hospitalised for mental health conditions, and no psychological report was presented.
Yeah, I think the court should have ordered some kind of evaluation…